Re: RELEASE CANDIDATE - nfs-utils-1.1.0-rc1

[Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:31:25PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday March 29, baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
> > 
> > >  Run "statd" only when starting the NFS server.
> > >  "statd" should be run before starting the NFS server.
> > 
> > While you're at it, can you tell me what should be the order of starting
> > all NFS/NFS4 daemons? So far I got to this:
> > 
> > 1) statd
> > 2) mountd
> > 3) nfsd
> > 4) idmapd
> > 5) svcgssd
> > 6) gssd
> > 7) rquotad
> > 8) any NFS mounts
> > 
> > Is it correct?
> 
> Hmm... good question.
> 
> I think:
> 
>   - idmapd and gssd should be started before any nfs mount
>   - idmapd and svcgssd should be started before nfsd
>   - mountd should start before nfsd.

At first that seems the logically correct order but suppose a client
succeeds in mounting something but issues NFS requests before nfsd got
started on the server?

where's the exportfs?

Consider a "sleep 30" at every point in the startup sequence and think
about what would go wrong. Also consider a dead-again server at every
point in the startup sequence.

-- 
Frank

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